Head of Finance - Data Centers

The role

You will be the finance leader for OpenAI's self-built data center efforts. You will partner with infrastructure, real estate, energy, construction, procurement, and finance teams to manage investment decisions, capital needs, and construction budgets.

What you will do

• Lead financial evaluation of proposed data center and related power infrastructure projects.
• Build and own project-level models and capital expenditure forecasts.
• Establish capital budgets and financial controls for active builds.
• Track commitments, actual spending, change orders, and forecasts to completion.
• Partner with development, engineering, energy, construction, and procurement leaders.
• Work with Treasury, Corporate Finance, Tax, and Legal to evaluate financing options.
• Prepare investment recommendations and capital approval materials for senior leadership.
• Build a consistent portfolio view of project costs, cash requirements, milestones, and financial performance.
• Partner with Accounting and operations teams through project completion and handoff.

Required qualifications

• Prior experience as the finance leader for large-scale data center builds or major electric generation projects.
• Directly owned investment analysis, capital budgets, and financial decisions through development and construction.
• 10+ years of experience across strategic finance, infrastructure finance, project development, or related fields.
• Strong command of project finance, capital project economics, capex and cash flow forecasting, budget management, and financing structures.
• Excellent financial modeling skills.
• Working knowledge of construction cost drivers and risks, including utility and power timelines, procurement, contracts, and change orders.
• Ability to work closely with technical and construction teams while communicating with senior finance and business leaders.
• Strong track record of hiring, leading and developing high performing teams.

Nice to have

• Prior experience in investment banking or private equity

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.